Friday, 14 January 2022

THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA. By Chinua Achebe

TWO EXCERPTS FROM THIS BOOK:
"Many Presidents, especially Third World Presidents, do not live in their country. One of the penalties of exalted power is loneliness. Harnessed to the trappings of protocol and blockaded by a buffer of grinning courtiers and sycophants, even a good and intelligent leader will gradually begin to forget what the real world looks like...."
"Nigeria is NOT a great country. It is one of the most disorderly nations in the world. It is one of the most corrupt, insensitive, inefficient places under the sun ... It is dirty, callous, noisy, ostentatious, dishonest and vulgar. In short, it is among the most unpleasant places on earth!" Achebe does not pull his punches in this work!
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5 comments:

  1. Leke Giwa14 January 2022 at 06:45

    When Africa's top wordsmith talks, we must listen and learn!

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  2. CHARLES17 January 2022 at 00:32

    very forthright, if rather controversial

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  3. Eric17 January 2022 at 00:50

    To put it in perspective, this is just one out of over 20 world class books published by the one and only Chinua Achebe

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  4. Henry OZOGULA20 January 2022 at 05:02

    Sadly the problems of Nigeria keep on multiplying in our modern times, government borrowing heavily everytime, lack of basic infrastructure incl. electricity, bandits and terrorists running riot...

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  5. HERCULE25 January 2022 at 09:39

    True - things are reaching boiling point in many African countries

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